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Thu, May 30, 2024 01:00PM EDT
Lot 111

RARE GREEK AND LATIN ANCIENT, AROUND 1630, BY HOMEROS ODYSSEY

Estimate: $1,760 - $2,000

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$1,000 $100
$2,000 $250
$10,000 $500
$25,000 $1,000
$75,000 $5,000

Year/Century: 17th century
Language: Greek
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Binding: Hardcover
Description: Id est De rebus ab Ulysse gestis: Eiusdemque Batrachomyomachia, Hymni Deorum, aliaque eius opuscula, seu catalecta, Homeros. Odyssea. Giphianius, Ed. No date, around 1630-827, (49 [of 52]) pp., woodcut printer's mark, Greek and Latin text, 18th/ 19th century boards, Strassburg, C. Dietzel and heirs of C. ab Heyden Dimensions: 4 1/2 by 6 1/2"; pages 384–400 replaced in manuscript (old handwritten in Greek with ink); no index pages; partially discolored; spine damaged; rare edition; only one copy found (in the Herzog August Bibliothek at Wolfenbuttel). The publishers Riehel of Strassburg, who had released an Ilias and Odyssey edition in 1572, was succeeded by C. Dietzelius and C. ab Heyden.

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